English Fairy Tales, Jack the Giant-killer, sentence 162
So Henny-penny, Cocky-locky, Ducky-daddles, Goosey-poosey and Turkey-lurkey all went to tell the king the sky was a-falling.
Who acts: Henny, Goosey poosey, sky · What happens: daddle, go, tell, be · To what, where: king · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Jack the Giant-killer. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Henny, Goosey poosey, sky), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | So | so | ADV | _ | 12 daddles | advmod |
| 2 | Henny | Henny | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 daddles | nsubj |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 Henny | punct |
| 4 | penny | penny | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Henny | appos |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 Cocky | punct |
| 6 | Cocky | Cocky | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Henny | appos |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 Cocky | punct |
| 8 | locky | locky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 Henny | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 locky | punct |
| 10 | Ducky | ducky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 locky | conj |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 Ducky | punct |
| 12 | daddles | daddle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 poosey | punct |
| 14 | Goosey | Goosey | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 poosey | compound |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 poosey | punct |
| 16 | poosey | poosey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 went | nsubj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 lurkey | cc |
| 18 | Turkey | Turkey | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 lurkey | compound |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 Turkey | punct |
| 20 | lurkey | lurkey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 poosey | conj |
| 21 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 22 went | advmod |
| 22 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 daddles | ccomp |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 tell | mark |
| 24 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 went | xcomp |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 king | det |
| 26 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 tell | obj |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 sky | det |
| 28 | sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 falling | nsubj |
| 29 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 falling | cop |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 falling | det |
| 31 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 30 a | punct |
| 32 | falling | fall | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 24 tell | ccomp |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 daddles | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | daddle | present | Henny | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | go | past | Goosey poosey and Turkey lurkey | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | to-infinitive | Goosey poosey and Turkey lurkey not said here | the king | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent king=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | is | past | the sky | fall property | tree rules |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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